Best practices at home

The following steps provides the necesary tools for restricting access and have a better cleaner internet access at home. At the end you will end up with clear restrictions for all the devices in your home. You will be able to restrict scheduled times and what devices should have restricions.

Lets head to www.nextdns.io

Click on the try it now.

How to avoid your kids skipping your settings.

We can do STO (Security through obscurity), enough for little curious fingers that wonders why they cannot access certain sites or what is that new icon on the toolbar with shield shape.

Press command key on your keyboard and drag the NextDNS icon out the toolbar.

Another technique is to use a profile. Instead of installing the NextDNS app you go with a profile method.

Lets go back to our main account and click on this link.

Regarding iPhones / iPads

Open your browser and head to nextdns.io

Click on the AppStore link.

Ads blocking:

You should install an ad blocker on your computer. Even FBI recomends it: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 Not having an adblock installed is the gateway for phising, malware, scams and even virus. This extension will also tackle ads embeded in. Ie: the Ads you see in YouTube.

This is a must have.

On Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en On Safari: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html

Safari basic protection on iOS.

Extra feature on NextDNS settings.

Deny list. Here you can put any url you want to be unavailable.